Date: 1658
"Our hearts all vice, as Amphitane gold draws, / The Load-stone iron, as the Amber strawes."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1658
"As by instinct the Loadstone draws / The iron, as the Amber straws; / So let thy grace mine heart attract, / Dear Lord!"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1729
"Now, while my thought round nature's circle runs / (A bolder journey than the furious sun's) / This chief and satiating good to find / The attracting centre of the human mind"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)